So, having travelled and lived in various parts of the world, I have noticed that the chess.com servers are highly biased in favour of players in Europe and the states. When I'm there I find that it reacts quickly and as such, I get to move faster.
Lately, however, I've been living in Japan and, it's really tilted in the other Western players' favour. I currently understand why a lot of the Asian players I play against are losing on time.
I have found that, while a normal pre-move back in Europe, is more or less instantaneous, and I see the same with my American opponents here in Japan. moves I make here, even pre-moved, loses me somewhere between 0.5 to 1 second per move.
Isn't it a bit unfair to have the system weigh it that way? Why isn't chess.com using servers between the two players to get a fairer latency for both players, instead of having one player lose near no time, while the other may lose up to a second per move from the lag of the servers? It's there actually a technical reason for this, or is it simply that the market is bigger in Europe and America, so other countries don't matter as much?
I'll admit, I find it frustrating, and that prompted me to write. Seeing my pre-moves take up to a second, and being down half a minute in a bullet game despite moving near instantaneously all the time feels absurd. I also begin to understand why, back in Europe, most of the Asian players I played against would do bad with time, but I didn't understand why until now.
This is half a rant, and half a question as to: why is the system not picking equal latency servers? I'm genuinely curious as to why my suffering is happening, haha.
I'm pretty sure the only Live server is in the main site data center, and there aren't distributed components for that. However, the site only allows a certain amount of lag, so if the lag is higher than that, only some of it's forgiven.
So, having travelled and lived in various parts of the world, I have noticed that the chess.com servers are highly biased in favour of players in Europe and the states. When I'm there I find that it reacts quickly and as such, I get to move faster.
Lately, however, I've been living in Japan and, it's really tilted in the other Western players' favour. I currently understand why a lot of the Asian players I play against are losing on time.
I have found that, while a normal pre-move back in Europe, is more or less instantaneous, and I see the same with my American opponents here in Japan. moves I make here, even pre-moved, loses me somewhere between 0.5 to 1 second per move.
Isn't it a bit unfair to have the system weigh it that way? Why isn't chess.com using servers between the two players to get a fairer latency for both players, instead of having one player lose near no time, while the other may lose up to a second per move from the lag of the servers? It's there actually a technical reason for this, or is it simply that the market is bigger in Europe and America, so other countries don't matter as much?
I'll admit, I find it frustrating, and that prompted me to write. Seeing my pre-moves take up to a second, and being down half a minute in a bullet game despite moving near instantaneously all the time feels absurd. I also begin to understand why, back in Europe, most of the Asian players I played against would do bad with time, but I didn't understand why until now.
This is half a rant, and half a question as to: why is the system not picking equal latency servers? I'm genuinely curious as to why my suffering is happening, haha.